✳ DAY ONE Cameroon 2 Burkina Faso1 Ethiopia 0 Cape Verde 1 (HT) Yaounde, Cameroon | THE INDEPENDENT | Indomitable Lions captain Vincent Aboubakar scored twice to give host nation Cameroon a 2-1 victory over Burkina Faso in the opening match of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2021. …
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✳ 9 January 2022 17:00 Cameroon v Burkina Faso 20:00 Ethiopia v Cape Verde ✳ 10 January 2022 14:00 Senegal v Zimbabwe 17:00 Guinea v Malawi 17:00 Morocco v Ghana 20:00 Comoros v Gabon First COVID-era African tournament set for Cameroon Yaounde, Cameroon | THE INDEPENDENT | After several fears and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA enforcement officers have this week intensifed operations to get vendors off the streets. The enforcement teams are being assisted by a group of youth donning reflector jackets with inscriptions, ‘Smart City’, that have however been accused of brutality by the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has finally opened the newly renovated Old Taxi Park in Kampala, close to two years since it was closed for refurbishment. Uganda’s biggest taxi park, used by over 200,000 passengers daily, was closed for renovation shortly after the March 2020 national wide lockdown …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Road users at 11am today officially started paying toll fees on the Kampala — Entebbe Expressway at the three toll stations in Mpala, Kajjansi and Busega. While many paid cash for their first use of the toll system, many were seen queuing to register …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Plans by several schools to make a COVID-19 test compulsory for returning students, and to also increase school fees, could be frustrated if orders by the Ministry of Education are enforced. Several educationists URN talked to are however not happy with the directive, saying …
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✳ 9 January 2022 17:00 Cameroon v Burkina Faso 20:00 Ethiopia v Cape Verde ✳ 10 January 2022 14:00 Senegal v Zimbabwe 17:00 Guinea v Malawi 17:00 Morocco v Ghana 20:00 Comoros v Gabon Yaounde, Cameroon | Xinhua | The Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe arrived in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law the the NSSF (Amendment) Bill, 2021, his Senior Press Secretary Lindah Nabusayi has said in a brief statement. A key provision in the NSSF (Amendment) Bill, 2021 will grant members aged 45 and above and who have …
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Khartoum, Sudan | THE INDEPENDENT | Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has this evening announced his resignation as pressure mounts with demonstrations against the recent military coup. Hamdok had first been sacked, before being reinstated. Reports from Khartoum say that Hamdok had quit, saying discussions towards a new agreement are …
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✅ Schools re-open Jan 10 ✅ Bars & concerts open Jan 25 ✅ Curfew to be lifted when bars open ✅ Transport sector fully re-open ✅ Cinema &sports events to fully open Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has announced the lifting of the lockdown due to COVID-19. …
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